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Romain Duris

Romain Duris

Actor · Born May 28, 1974 (52) · Paris, France

Romain Duris (born 28 May 1974) is a French actor. Romain Duris is most famous for his role as the French exchange student Xavier Rousseau in The Spanish Apartment and The Russian Dolls. He has a reputation for versatility, having played a thug in The Beat That My Heart Skipped.

Biography from TMDB.

Born
May 28, 1974 (52)
From
Paris, France
Works as
Actor
Titles
40 on MovieCove · 70 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 155 days to Oct 26Up 16% in 30 days

What are Romain Duris' films like?

Across their 36 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.

Genres

Comedy15 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 71st percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Comedy movies
Action6 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 64th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Action movies
Drama5 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 51st percentile
: browse their Drama movies
Biography3 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 72nd percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Biography movies
Crime3 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 45th percentile
: browse their Crime movies

Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.

Themes

share of theme weight
Self
30%
Bonds
24%
Morality
17%
Survival
14%
Power
7%
Society
5%
Ideas
4%
Identity13 titles, browse their movies with this themeFamily bonds8 titles, browse their movies with this themePurpose8 titles, browse their movies with this themeRomantic love7 titles, browse their movies with this themeDeception6 titles, browse their movies with this themeSurvival5 titles, browse their movies with this themeFriendship4 titles, browse their movies with this themeSacrifice4 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 36 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Serious: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their serious movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

A split, not a type: Light 13 · Serious 10 · Dark 13

Stylized: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their stylized movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 13 · Stylized 18 · Heightened 5

Charged: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their charged movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 5 · Charged 21 · Intense 10

Shifting: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their shifting movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 14 · Shifting 15 · Whiplash 7

Some laughs: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their some laughs movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

A split, not a type: Straight-faced 16 · Some laughs 13 · Funny 7

Even-paced: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their even-paced movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 14 · Even-paced 19 · Relentless 3

Engaged: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their engaged movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 11 · Engaged 22 · Full focus 3

Affecting: How much it costs you emotionally; whether you need recovery time. Browse their affecting movies.
Demand · Emotional cost
easyheavy

A split, not a type: Easy watch 13 · Affecting 8 · Heavy 15

Resolved: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their resolved movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 23 · Open-ended 11 · Ambiguous 2

Roles they play

33 analyzed roles

Usually the Hero: 20 of 33 analyzed roles.

Hero
20 of 33
Trickster
4 of 33
Ally
4 of 33
Shadow
3 of 33
Mentor
1 of 33
Shapeshifter
1 of 33
Show the 33 roles

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
19
Warm
10
Melancholic
13
Romantic
8
Contemplative
9
Other
38

How their films linger

Bittersweet17 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHopeful11 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteThought-provoking10 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFun8 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFeel-good7 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteUnsettling6 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end · 5 with a twist

  • Happy3
  • Bittersweet24
  • Tragic2
  • Ambiguous7

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Romain Duris' films?

As of October 24, 2026, 26 of their 40 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (10).

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Romain Duris' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

70 credits, 40 with a MovieCove page; 7 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

  • Fantomas: The New World (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2027)

    as Juve

  • Abracadabra (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2027)

    Actor

  • Le fantôme de l'opéra(2026)

    as James Figueras

  • Nobody's Son(2026)

    as Thomas

    Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films

  • Furcy, né libre(2025)

    as Boucher

    Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films

  • Dog 51(2025)

    as Théo Rimarval

    Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films

  • The Rembrandt Syndrome (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    as Yves

  • A Missing Part(2024)

    as Jay

    Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films

  • Night Call(2024)

    as Yannick

    Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films

  • Daaaaaali!(2023)

    as Jérôme

    Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films

  • The Three Musketeers: Milady(2023)

    as Aramis

    Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films

  • The Animal Kingdom(2023)

    as François

    Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films

  • Greek Salad(2023)

    Show 8 episodes · as Xavier

    Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all shows

  • The Three Musketeers - Part I: D'Artagnan(2023)

    as Aramis

    Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films

  • Final Cut(2022)

    as Rémi / Higurashi

    Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films

  • Charlotte(2021)

    as French Alfred Wolfsohn

    Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films

  • Waiting for Bojangles(2021)

    as Georges

    Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films

  • Eiffel(2021)

    as Gustave Eiffel

    Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films

  • Gainsbourg, toute une vie (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

    Actor

  • Aznavour by Charles(2019)

    as Charles Aznavour (voice)

    Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films

  • Vernon Subutex (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    Show 9 episodes · as Vernon Subutex

  • The Great Darkened Days (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    as Lester

  • Our Struggles (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    as Olivier Vallet

  • Black Tide(2018)

    as Yan

    Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films

  • A Breath Away(2018)

    as Mathieu

    Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films

  • Mrs. Hyde(2017)

    as Le proviseur

    Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all films

  • All the Money in the World(2017)

    as Cinquanta

    Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films

  • Ceasefire (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    as Georges Laffont

  • The Confession (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    as Père Léon Morin

  • In the Shadow of Iris(2016)

    as Max Lopez

    Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films

  • Odd Job(2016)

    as Jacques

    Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films

  • Démons (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    as Frank

  • The New Girlfriend(2014)

    as David / Virginia

    Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films

  • Chinese Puzzle(2013)

    as Xavier Rousseau

    Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films

  • Mood Indigo(2013)

    as Colin

    Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all films

  • Populaire(2012)

    as Louis Échard

    Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films

  • The Big Picture(2010)

    as Paul Exben

    Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films

  • Heartbreaker(2010)

    as Alex Lippi

    Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films

  • Persecution (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

    as Daniel

  • Afterwards(2008)

    as Nathan Del Amico

    Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all films

  • Paris(2008)

    as Pierre

    Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films

  • The Age of Man (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)

    as Samuel

  • Molière(2007)

    as Moliere

    Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films

  • In Paris (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)

    as Paul

  • Russian Dolls(2005)

    as Xavier Rousseau

    Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films

  • The Beat That My Heart Skipped(2005)

    as Thomas Seyr

    Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films

  • Arsène Lupin(2004)

    as Arsène Lupin

    Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all films

  • Exiles (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)

    as Zano

  • Osmosis (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)

    as Rémi

  • The Divorce(2003)

    as Yves

    Midcredits score: 11th percentile of all films

  • Shimkent Hôtel (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)

    as Romain

  • No Big Deal (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)

    as Léo

  • Adolphe (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)

    as D'Erfeuil

  • 17 fois Cécile Cassard (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)

    as Mathieu

  • The Spanish Apartment(2002)

    as Xavier

    Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films

  • Being Light (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)

    as Maxime Lecocq

  • Tom Thumb (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)

    as un garde de la reine

  • CQ(2001)

    as Hippie Filmmaker

    Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films

  • Children of the Stork (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)

    as Otto

  • Peut-être (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)

    as Arthur

  • Les Kidnappeurs (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)

    as Zero

  • Already Dead (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)

    as Romain

  • The Crazy Stranger(1997)

    as Stéphane

    Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films

  • Dobermann(1997)

    as Manu

    Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films

  • When the Cat's Away(1996)

    as le joueur de batterie

    Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films

  • Mémoires d'un jeune con (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)

    as Luc

  • Brothers: Red Roulette (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)

    as Marco

  • Good Old Daze (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)

    as Tomasi

  • Chaos (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Actor

  • Turgot (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Actor

Career shape

Star power in the 99th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 70 titles, 65 of them dated from 1995 to 2026; peak year 2017.

Biggest box office

All the Money in the World (2017)

$57M worldwide

Highest rated

The Crazy Stranger (1997)

Midcredits 95th

Most popular right now

Populaire (2012)

Film career

MilestoneBreakout
19952026

Peak 2017 · at the high point of their film career. Top draw in 19 MovieCove titles. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.

  • 1995Screen debut· Good Old Daze
  • 1995First top-billed film· Good Old Daze
  • 2002Breakout· The Spanish Apartment
  • 2002Career best· The Spanish Apartment
  • 2023Career best· Greek Salad

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting70 of 70: 70 only acting, 0 with another role · typical Midcredits score67th

By decade

1990s10 · acting2000s20 · acting2010s19 · acting2020s16 · acting

Billing

usually 1st · top billed in 64% of 44 roles
950005101520

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30; the columns are the share of top-billed roles in each era, 5-year spans from the year on the label, merged until each holds at least 5 roles.

How do Romain Duris' films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 67th percentile, the median of the 38 of 39 with a score; across their 36 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 67th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

67thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 36

Approval · how many liked their films

67thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 36

Reach · how many have seen their films

87thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 36

Midcredits score across 39 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up11
  • 50th to 74th19
  • 25th to 49th6
  • Below 25th3

Shape of the crowd

27 of their 39 titles are Crowd Pleasers.

  • Universally Loved1
  • Crowd Pleaser27
  • Broadly Agreed5
  • Mixed6

Most divisive · actor

Charlotte (2021)

64th percentile spread · 21% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · actor

The Crazy Stranger (1997)

Midcredits 95th · 84% liked

Reviewers score the acting 75/100 in their films, across 32 reviewed titles; fans 81, detractors 49. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Is Romain Duris' work okay for kids?

Across up to 15 MovieCove titles with content scores, violence & gore and sex & nudity run heavier than most films.

Their medianMedian of all filmsMiddle 80% of their titles
Violence & Gore6 titles39–67 · median 55 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 44
Sex & Nudity15 titles29–58 · median 44 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 32
Profanity4 titlesmedian 43 · moderateMedian of all films: 36
Alcohol & Drugs3 titlesmedian 31 · mildMedian of all films: 33
Frightening / Intense5 titles29–63 · median 33 · mildnear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 39

Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.

Who does Romain Duris work with?

People who share at least 2 of Romain Duris' MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Cédric Klapisch shares the most, 5.

Directors

Writers

Actors

Composers, cinematographers and editors

Producers